Oda's second bar is in a 140-year-old townhouse where zero-alcohol and alcoholic drinks are served by bartender Tamura Seiji. Image: Audrey Foo During the COVID lockdown, Oda closed his bar and ...

SAKATA, Yamagata Prefecture--The last call came on May 10 for Japan's oldest bartender, Keiichi Iyama, who invented the world-famous Yukiguni cocktail and was the subject of a 2018 documentary film.

Decades of recession, less work-related drinking and greater health consciousness have shrunk Japan’s alcohol consumption. Leading global drinks data and analytics provider IWSR (formerly ...